* Anny Mous (Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:46:25 +1100) > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:43 pm, Peter Otten wrote: > > > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > >> [Crossposted to tutor and general mailing list] > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'd like to extend the dictionary class by creating a class that acts > >> like a dictionary if the class is instantiated with a dictionary and > >> acts like a "dictitem" ([(key1, value1), (key2, value2), ...]) if > >> instantiated with a list (that is dictitem). > [...] > > def GenericDict(dict_or_items): > > if isinstance(dict_or_items, dict): > > return dict(dict_or_items) > > else: > > return SimpleGenericDictWithOnlyTheFalseBranchesImplemented( > > dict_or_items > > ) > > > Personally, I'd go even simpler: > > dict(dict_of_items) > > will return a dict regardless of whether you start with another dict or a > list or tuples.
The whole point of my posting was non hashable keys (like lists): ``` >>> dictitem [([1], '11'), ([2], '22'), ([4], '33'), ([3], '44')] >>> dict(dictitem) --------------------------------------------------------------------- TypeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-12-0f2b626ac851> in <module>() ----> 1 dict(dictitem) TypeError: unhashable type: 'list' ``` Thorsten -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
